Two of Robert Shinn’s three kids have roughly stopped chatting with him, an alleged cult chief.
Robert Shinn
In Might 2024, Netflix dropped a documentary a couple of attainable cult that concerned influencers, TikTok, dancing, and a church that was based in 1994. Dancing for the Satan: The 7M TikTok Cult takes a take a look at Robert Shinn and the 2 organizations he based and has full management over — 7M Movies and the Shekinah Church. The documentary options interviews with former dancers who had been represented by 7M and joined the church. The dancers declare that Robert took benefit of them.
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If that is certainly a cult with Robert as its chief, it differs from different cults in a number of methods. First, Robert reportedly is not a charismatic man in any respect. Many imagine every part he did was rooted in a need to be wealthy and he appears to crave monetary management. He’s additionally a father whose youngsters had been both concerned within the church, the manufacturing firm, or each. Here is what we find out about Robert Shinn’s kids.
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A few of Robert Shinn’s kids have stopped chatting with him.
Robert has three kids however solely one in all them, his son Isaiah, has managed to carve out his personal piece of the leisure world. Based on Enterprise Insider, Isaiah started working as a manufacturing assistant for his father when he was simply an adolescent. By 2018 he had his personal firm, HiFreq Movies, and now primarily works in commercials and dance movies the place he “developed a kinetic, high-energy capturing type nicely suited to social media,” says the outlet.
Inside a 12 months, Isaiah was working with a gradual roster of 12 dancers he discovered by way of social media. They’d beforehand labored with artists like Beyoncé and Janet Jackson, or popped up on exhibits equivalent to So You Assume You Can Dance. To nobody’s shock, they had been all Christian or had been fascinated by exploring Christianity additional.
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Because the COVID-19 pandemic arrived and successfully shut down the nation, the dancers had been in a position to preserve going due to the assistance from Isaiah and Robert who based 7M Movies collectively in July 2021. Some may ask why profitable TikTokers would want a movie firm and the reply is straightforward, the Shinns gave them costly tools, hair and make-up, in addition to areas that took their content material to the following stage.
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Throughout this time, Robert’s daughter Chloe was additionally serving to with music however she later parted methods with the corporate in addition to the church. She wasn’t Robert’s solely youngster to go away the corporate and the church.
Robert’s daughter, who additionally goes by Kloë Julynn, left the church alongside together with her different brother Conrad.
Chloe Shinn, who carried out below the title Kloë Julynn, is a singer-songwriter who was as soon as a part of a document label based by her father. In October 2018, she spoke with Hype Journal about her music which on the time, had been featured on Dancing With The Stars, Love & Hip Hop, The Actual Housewives, Queer Eye, and The View to call a number of. Chole instructed the outlet she started taking part in piano on the age of 10 and three years later, picked up a guitar to help her “love of songwriting.”
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She is talked about just a few instances within the documentary however her updates are being monitored by Katie Paulson who hosts the With no Crystal Ball podcast. Paulson has been following Robert and the cult allegations for a number of years and is a producer on the Netflix documentary. In August 2022, she posted a message from Chloe and her husband Daniel Joseph, who was beforehand Robert’s right-hand man, about leaving the church.
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Chloe and Daniel Joseph had been married for seven years on the time and he was the second-in-command to Robert. This assertion should have come as a shock to their neighborhood. The couple acknowledged that “at the start of Might of this 12 months, we parted methods with Shekinah Church and don’t have any enterprise with any firm related to the church or its associates.” In addition they stated they had been not working with or being represented by 7M Movies, their contacts, or associates.
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Three months later, Paulson posted a message from Robert’s different son Conrad, which she took screenshots of from Fb. Conrad claimed that he was disowned by his father for not “falling in step with the remainder of his church members,” however was not afraid to talk up. He addressed a number of issues together with the accusations that Robert began a cult. Conrad stated that isn’t true, he’s merely a mentor to his purchasers.
Conrad denied any sexual assault allegations towards his father and urged that Robert is perhaps autistic as a result of he’s. Evidently, in response to Conrad, Robert resides with high-functioning autism and “75 % of children with autism inherit it from their father.” Basically he is not denying that his father might need sexually assaulted individuals. As an alternative, he is saying Robert is autistic and might need a excessive libido he merely cannot deal with.
Lastly, Conrad assured anybody studying that Isaiah was by no means a cult recruiter. He was simply an “aspiring movie director,” who typically helped dancers without cost to realize expertise and bolster his contacts. Wow, Conrad simply took us on a wild and insulting trip.